Programming and politics

Last year we saw the passing of Dennis Ritchie. I was one of the lucky students who used the K&R book as a text book in college. Actu...

Earlier this week, the third part in a series of articles I wrote was published on developerWorks. The series is on CoffeeScript , a langua...

One of the curses of working with computers is that you often become The IT person for friends and family. In fact, I should get a commissio...

Today I read a blog pos t by @joestump where he attempted to refute claims that Digg had been "doing it wrong" when they could n...

Last week I had a fun conversation with Charles Nutter . It was about "java.next" and in particular, Charlie's requirements...

Last week, I was at the Strange Loop conference, and it was a great conference. It inspired one blog post that managed to piss some Clojure ...

I have finally been getting around to working some more on Scala+Android . A lot needs to be done, especially since I am talking about it ne...

This morning I read an excellent pair of articles by Scott Davis on metaprogramming in Groovy. It reminded me of some of the different way...

This past week's BASE meeting was all about IDE support for Scala. You can read my notes , posted to the Scala tools mailing list. I was...

In October, I am speaking at the inaugural Strange Loop conference in St. Louis . This is not your run of the mill conference. It is organiz...

Right now Apple and Google are in the midst of major upgrades to the OS on their devices, the iPhone OS and Android. If you develop for thes...

If you are an iPhone developer, you were probably excited about Apple revealing a beta of OS 3.0 and the corresponding beta of SDK 3.0. Ther...

I had a fun exchange on Twitter recently with @jamesiry and @codemonkeyism about how to hire developers. I think my thoughts on hiring are ...

The other day, I made a really dumb Tweet about Java collections. I tried to come up with an excuse for it, but there really was none. Thi...

Web scale development is cache development. Oversimplification? Yes, but it is still true. Figuring out what to cache, how to cache it, and ...

Last night I finished writing an article on JavaFX. It was a lot of fun, and it has convinced me that JavaFX has a strong future. A lot of i...

In case you missed it, Python's BDFL a.k.a. Guido van Rossum filed some major complaints about Scala . After you read that, read a good...

I had not done any Project Euler problems for awhile, so I decided to solve one yesterday. I was also planning on attending the next BASE m...

I finished Core Python. My last post on it hits on a few random things towards the end of the book. The most interesting is threading in Py...

Today I finished the part three of a series of articles on the Google App Engine. Of course right now, GAE only supports Python. So I've...